> So - this is a non-starter. We need parallel downloads in yum to run in > A SEPARATE process. This lets us have the benefit of separate selinux > protections over the downloading process and the transaction process.
Yeah, I remember we talked about selinux... I'm not a selinux expert, just expected that when it offers per-PID security policies, it covers threads too. Looked much simpler. But security-wise, shared memory is no real boundary, right. > More importantly the number of things that go unwell in rpm when > threading comes into play is so high that keeping threads out of yum > entirely is worthwhile. RPM is out the way. > Forking off multiple processes which you communicate with over a pipe is > the preferred method for multiple, parallel downloads in yum. > I'm sorry, but nack. No big deal, I'll think about it again. Thanks! Zdenek _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
